The Story of a Life: The restless yearsPantheon Books, 1974 - Authors, Russian |
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Page 61
... Bulgakov . ' You're just as keen as can be to have a row , and yet you've been brought up in a respectable professional family . Just think of it ! A pupil who calls his own headmaster a " milk churn " ! The indecency of it ! And the ...
... Bulgakov . ' You're just as keen as can be to have a row , and yet you've been brought up in a respectable professional family . Just think of it ! A pupil who calls his own headmaster a " milk churn " ! The indecency of it ! And the ...
Page 62
... Bulgakov all his life . It was no accident that Bulgakov's favourite author was Gogol . Not Gogol as formally interpreted and remembered by us from our school days , but the frantic romancer , who frightened people beyond measure by his ...
... Bulgakov all his life . It was no accident that Bulgakov's favourite author was Gogol . Not Gogol as formally interpreted and remembered by us from our school days , but the frantic romancer , who frightened people beyond measure by his ...
Page 64
... Bulgakov moulds the figure of Stalin . And such is the power for good of Bulgakov's talent that the figure comes out humane and even to some extent pleasant and warm . One forgets , somehow , that Bulgakov's story deals with a man who ...
... Bulgakov moulds the figure of Stalin . And such is the power for good of Bulgakov's talent that the figure comes out humane and even to some extent pleasant and warm . One forgets , somehow , that Bulgakov's story deals with a man who ...
Contents
Map page | 9 |
The Last Meeting II | 11 |
The Silent Fields | 18 |
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